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Stephen Downes

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Clark Quinn  argues there are two things learning and development ahould be doing: measuring results, and "looking at going beyond courses. Not just performance support, but here I'm talking about informal and social learning, e.g. innovation." So, first, I guess people have been saying these things since forever, though the go-to is still the page-turner online course (my employer just throws these at me like confetti). But more significant are the deeper questions Quinn doesn't touch: what should be measured? How are informal and social learning best supported? How do you get from the point where the company is stuffing mandatory training into employees' brains to the sort of learning that is self-motivated, ongoing, and productive? For people who go on and on about 'myths' there's certainly a lack of soul-searching in the corporate e-learning community.

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